Abstract
Advanced technology is being adopted by the medical industry to enhance people’s overall health and make life easier. The introduction of 6G communication technology alongside the Internet of Things (IoT) possesses the capacity to revolutionize medical services, making them more advanced, and improving the infrastructure with the use of smart wearables and devices. However, this also brings some challenges, especially when maintaining the privacy and safety of the patient’s medical information. Blockchain technology can tackle these problems by providing a distributed and secure framework. When blockchain technology and the IoT are combined, the healthcare industry will be transformed. The tackling of issues like data security, personalized patient data management, and maintenance of data integrity can be performed in a better way. Healthcare practices become more reliable due to the distributed structure of blockchain, which guarantees the immutability of data. This review focuses on how combining blockchain technology with the IoT can help revolutionize the medical industry. It gives a fundamental introduction to blockchain technology, its architecture, the IoT, decentralizing IoT with blockchain, and its applications.
